As a React developer, you’ll eventually experience the urge to take that next large step into a senior role. Many of us stay stuck as a junior or mid-level developer, even as we get more experienced. Of course, experience comes with time but some of you may have the mindset of a senior developer but not studying the required topics. This blog will not contain tutorials but a general overview of th

I spent 11 years at Amazon (as a Principal Engineer in Developer Tools), and have been at Google for the last 2.5 years (as a Senior Staff Engineer on Developer Infrastructure for Integration Testing). Both positions were company-wide engineering productivity roles that put me in touch with a vast array of teams and exposed me to both cultures deeply. And I’ve come to the following epiphany and pa

The best “Application programmers” are cultured to focus on business requirements and they typically don’t always factor in the need for concurrency — and that’s the way it should be. We don’t think of concurrency first — we think of “business requirements first”. Often the complexities involved in writing concurrent code are abstracted inside a Go library or a third-party package (e.g. HTTP serve

Photo by Craig Garner on Unsplash, edited with CanvaEvery CPU comes with a circuitry language called ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) Assembly. The ISA Assembly is a hardware language that consists of operations for basic data manipulation, mathematical calculations, and structured programming…

Use linting and automatic formatterAll the major tools for React provide linting rules. If you like, feel free to edit them to fit your style, but always use some and automate the process of linting and formatting. Preferred tools are eslint and prettier. Import orderAdd some import order rules to your eslint config. This will ensure that the imports are always in the same order and are grouped by

Photo by charlesdeluvio on UnsplashWhy Should We Care About Design PatternsSimply put, design patterns help us solve problems by creating a reusable solution that we can use as a template for our software. That being said, design patterns aren't algorithms and you can't paste them into the code base. They give you a template of sorts, but if misused some patterns may cause additional complexity an

The picture of a male peafowl standing on the grass. The bird is fanning its tail, displaying all the feathers. The feathers are enormous and contain eyespots. According to Charles Darwin, the peafowl has developed this setup to attract females.An evolvable API is an API that can change with the least amount of effort without speculation or over-engineering. It’s a way to model the communication b